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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Blind Clear Hurry Man
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Blind Eyes Jealous Smart Virtue
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Bad Beginning End One Liner
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Human Luck Rule War
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Democracy Freedom People Prison Taste
The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Beginning Hope One Liner Sun Time
Adversity makes men remember God.
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Adversity God Hard Time Man One Liner Remember
The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Freedom Listening Sweet
Woe to the conquered.
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Conquer One Liner Win
From abundance springs safety.
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Material Safety Spring Wealth
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Scare Serious Trouble
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Blame Clever Man People Smart
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Event Greatness Spring
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Betray Care End Fake Trust

Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

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